Content note: Discussion of eating disorders One year ago, I’d just started a new job, and the first paycheck wouldn’t come for a whole month. I experienced food insecurity and unstable housing both in college and afterwards. The fear of not making it was so loud in my mind, and a little thought said: “Just … Continue reading Still learning to love myself: Through eating disorder recovery
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Originally posted on Facebook on August 31, 2018. Hi guys. Somehow I've made it through another year, and I lived to tell the tale. Turning 29 feels old because I'm still young inside. It's kind of like the end of the book "Fog Magic" when Greta tells her father she thinks getting older is like … Continue reading So I’m turning 29: World Suicide Prevention Day 2018
Originally posted on Facebook April 20, 2018. So for those of you who've been around me a while know that I came out of a fundamentalist religious background and I worked for several years to weed those things out of my life. Those old thought patterns were rooted in some people's unhealthy desires to control … Continue reading The journey continues: How I’m healing from spiritual abuse
Originally posted on April 4, 2018. So I went on a journey this last weekend to find my grandparents’ graves. I was in Houston anyway after dropping a friend off at the airport and I don’t get much time off to go adventuring between work and school. I didn’t expect it to be so gut-wrenching. … Continue reading Grief is complicated
Content note: sexual assault I told myself that he’d just made a mistake. I was 25. I’d never dated anyone. He was my study partner, helping me get through senior level classes. He knew I was planning to move out of state after I graduated college in a few months. “Neither one of us have … Continue reading #MeToo: It took me three years to unfriend him {For the Huffington Post}
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